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No Rescuing Paterno's Reputation by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS February 11, 2013 Go ahead and read all 238 pages of the Paterno family report, if you're so inclined. People who believe Joe Paterno's statue should still be standing in Happy Valley probably will, and feel pretty good about it at the end. The summary weighs in at just four pages and does its job of giving Paterno a posthumous cleansing, too. Turns out he was a trusting sort who knew nothing about anything — and no one else did, either. Or just read this headline and save yourself a lot of time: Critique of the Freeh Report: The Rush to Injustice Regarding Joe Paterno. Pretty much sums it up, though widow Sue will go on Katie Couric's show Monday to make sure everyone understands. A year after his death, the campaign to resuscitate Joe Paterno's name is under way with a hefty document that savages the Freeh Report implicating Paterno as a silent enabler of Jerry Sandusky as "rank speculation, innuendo and rhetoric." Was there any other way this w ...

NCAA Wants Pa. Gov's Penn State Lawsuit Dismissed by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS February 08, 2013 HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The NCAA said Thursday a judge should throw out the federal antitrust lawsuit the governor filed against it over Penn State's $60 million fine and other penalties resulting from the Jerry Sandusky child molestation scandal. College sports' governing body said in a filing that it disagrees with just about every allegation in the complaint against it initiated by Gov. Tom Corbett last month. The NCAA said the penalties imposed under a July consent decree with the university are unrelated to regulation of economic activity, so antitrust law does not apply. It also argued Corbett lacks standing to sue and called his lawsuit "an inappropriate attempt to drag the federal courts into an intra-state political dispute." "The remedial measures that Penn State agreed to were controversial, and have elicited strong feelings on all sides," the NCAA's lawyers wrote. "Some think they are too harsh, and so ...

Victim 6 Sues Penn State, Sandusky, His Charity by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS January 23, 2013 HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A young man who testified at a child sex abuse trial last summer that Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky tickled and grabbed him in a campus shower in 1998 sued him, his charity and the university on Tuesday. The man, previously described as Victim 6 in court papers, filed the federal lawsuit in Philadelphia as John Doe 6, claiming that Sandusky's behavior was "ratified" by The Second Mile charity and Penn State and that the organizations acted with reckless indifference to his rights. He is seeking at least $75,000 in damages. The lawsuit alleges that Penn State intentionally didn't oversee Sandusky properly and failed to report him to authorities when he was suspected of abusing children, allowing him to commit "his criminally outrageous and depraved acts." It claims Penn State and The Second Mile "turned a blind eye to Sandusky's sexual exploitation" of children and " ...

I KNOW THIS IS A VERY LONG STATUS BUT PLEASE READ AND PASS ALONG. THIS IS SO TRUE ABOUT A GOOD MAN THAT WAS NOT GIVEN A CHANCE. I WISH I COULD HAVE MADE A DIFFERENCE IN THIS MANS FATE. I LOVE YOU DIAMOND DAN AND LEISA!! YOU GUYS HELPED MY FAMILY OUT IN MORE WAYS THAN YOU WILL EVER KNOW.. Angling Diamond Dan Thu, Jan 3, 2013All Posts, Features, News Last month The Associated Press asked American newspaper editors and television news directors to name the top stories of 2012. The AP does this every year and the news service released its most recent survey results a few days before Christmas. The consensus among America’s media executives is that the rash of mass shootings like the tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut; the national elections; “Superstorm Sandy;” “Obamacare;” the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya; Jerry Sandusky, the Penn State pedophile; the economic recovery; the fiscal cliff; *** marriage; and the civil war in Syria – in that order – were the top ten stories about wh ...

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett (R) on Tuesday said he will sue the NCAA in federal court over the punitive sanctions levied against Penn State University for the institution's failures in the child sex abuse scandal involving former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, the Associated Press report...

STATE COLLEGE — Penn State trustees chairwoman Karen Peetz won’t run for another term as leader of the university’s governing body, but will remain on the board. The school made the announcement Tuesday, five days after Bank of New York Mellon promoted Peetz to president of the company effective Jan. 1. Peetz is the CEO of the bank’s financial markets and treasury services business. In a statement, Peetz cited the demands of her new post at BNY Mellon as a reason for not running for another one-year term as trustees chair. A trustee since 2010, Peetz took over as chairwoman this past January. She has led the board’s efforts to reform university governance in the aftermath of the child sex abuse scandal involving retired Penn State assistant coach Jerry Sandusky. — The Associated Press

. . What Jerry Sandusky can look forward to in prison By MARK SCOLFORO | Associated Press – 15 hrs ago.. . . Email 8 Print ... . . . Enlarge Photo. Associated Press/Gene J. Puskar - FILE - In this June 21, 2012 file photo, former Penn State University assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky leaves the Centre County Courthouse in Bellefonte, Pa. Sandusky …more .. . . . HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Jerry Sandusky will walk into state prison with little more than a watch and wedding band. He'll be able to work a 30-hour week to make a few dollars. He'll be able to watch Penn State football, but not violent movies. If the Former Penn State defensive coach is sentenced Tuesday to a long state prison term, he will find himself far removed from the comfortable suburban life he once led, placed under the many rules and regulations of the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections. Even Sandusky's own attorney believes that whatever sentence he gets, at age 68 Sandusky will likely live out his days inside a state pris ...

When it comes to *** and the Boy Scouts, both Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama say they believe *** youth and counselors should have the right to openly work in the youth organization. Romney spokeswoman Andrea Saul told the Associated Press that Romney's position...

The media says Joe Paterno and Penn State is FOOTBALL ORIENTED ? City of Grambling wants Paterno record vacated By DAVID BRANDT (AP Sports Writer) | The Associated Press – Thu, Jul 19, 2012 6:45 PM EDT An attorney for the city of Grambling, La., has asked the NCAA infractions committee to vacate some of Joe Paterno's record 409 Division I victories. Grambling is the home of Grambling State University. Coach Eddie Robinson led Grambling to 408 victories during his career with the Tigers, a total that was passed by Paterno less than two weeks before he was fired as the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal broke. City attorney Pamela Breedlove said she filed the request with the approval of Mayor Edward Jones because the university is such a valued and important part of the city. The Shreveport (La.) Times first reported the request. Breedlove said she did not have an opinion about how many victories should be vacated. The three-page request she sent to the NCAA details the city's position, which says th ...

This is an indictment of the whole sports first culture we have created in our society! WE MUST RE-EVALUATE OUR ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIORS. NCAA statement on sanctions of Penn State football By The Associated Press | The Associated Press – 18 hours ago By perpetuating a ''football first'' culture that ultimately enabled serial child sexual abuse to occur, The Pennsylvania State University leadership failed to value and uphold institutional integrity, resulting in a breach of the NCAA constitution and rules. The NCAA Division I Board of Directors and NCAA Executive Committee directed Association President Mark Emmert to examine the circumstances and determine appropriate action in consultation with these presidential bodies. ''As we evaluated the situation, the victims affected by Jerry Sandusky and the efforts by many to conceal his crimes informed our actions,'' said Emmert. ''At our core, we are educators. Penn State leadership lost sight of that.'' According to the NCAA conclusions and sanctions, the Fr ...

Paterno Won Sweeter Deal Even as Scandal Played Out The former coach Joe Paterno, with his son Scott Paterno, left, being greeted by supporters at his home in November 2011. His firing led to an angry backlash against Penn State’s trustees. Matt Rourke/Associated Press By JO BECKER Last Updated: 2:30 AM ET In January 2011, Joe Paterno learned prosecutors were investigating his longtime assistant coach Jerry Sandusky for sexually assaulting young boys. Soon, Mr. Paterno had testified before a grand jury, and the rough outlines of what would become a giant scandal had been published in a local newspaper. That same month, Mr. Paterno, the football coach at Penn State, began negotiating with his superiors to amend his contract, with the timing something of a surprise because the contract was not set to expire until the end of 2012, according to university documents and people with knowledge of the discussions. By August, Mr. Paterno and the university’s president, both of whom were by then embroiled in th ...

A new report released Thursday morning finds that senior leaders, including Joe Paterno, at Penn State University disregarded the safety and welfare of victims abused by Jerry Sandusky, says the Associated Press.

Associated Press STATE COLLEGE — Penn State’s internal investigation into the Jerry Sandusky child sexual abuse case is drawing to a close, and the findings are expected within weeks, which would enable the university to confront the next difficult chapter in the scandal well ahead of the new acad...

Thursday June 28, 2012 Associated Press BOSTON (AP) -- The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to uphold President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul, including the individual insurance requirement at the heart of the law, is being hailed as a vindication for Massachusetts. Massachusetts laid the ...

Sandusky jury seeks guidance on janitor testimony GENARO C. ARMAS From Associated Press June 22, 2012 4:48 PM EDT BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) — Jurors deliberating in Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky's child sexual abuse trial have focused their questions to the judge on allegations related to two alleged victims still unknown to investigators. On Friday afternoon, the jury sought details from the judge on charges connected to a boy known in court records as Victim 8. Earlier Friday, jurors listened again to testimony from a key prosecution witness, Penn State assistant coach Mike McQueary, about an unknown boy alleged assaulted by Sandusky inside a football facility shower. Sandusky is accused of sexually abusing 10 boys over a 15-year period, using his charity for at-risk youth, The Second Mile, as a source of victims. Regarding Victim 8, Judge John Cleland told the jurors in a brief courtroom meeting that they must be satisfied that there is other evidence that abuse occurred, not j ...